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Subject(s)

• Fame—Social aspects [Browse]
• Popular culture—Social aspects—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Celebrities in popular culture—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Elliott, Anthony, 1964- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]
• Routledge International Handbooks

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed April 6, 2018).

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Part I Theories and Concepts of Celebrity
• 1 Celebrity and contemporary culture: A critical analysis of some theoretical accounts
• Situating celebrity and the rise of celebrity studies
• Celebrity in the frame of globalization, or the cultural logics of fame
• Celebrity culture, self-identity and reinvention
• References
• 2 Celebrity's histories
• Introduction
• The Graphic Revolution: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• The Enlightenment and Romanticism: 1750-1850
• Eighteenth-century print and visual culture
• The theatricalization of society
• A new kind of self
• The feminization of fame
• Early modernity, after the printing press and the Reformation
• Early modern print and visual culture
• Subjectivity, authenticity and the performance of the self
• Theatre, power, market
• If celebrities are like saints, saints are like celebrities
• Conclusion
• 3 Celebrity in the contemporary era
• Some major themes in contemporary celebrity studies
• Emerging themes in the twenty-first century
• Concluding comments: new frontiers
• 4 Postmodern theories of celebrity
• Introduction: classic ideas, contemporary celebrity culture
• Revisiting postmodernism
• Postmodernism, fame and media
• Postmodern celebrity identities revisited
• Brand Kardashian and postmodern commodified celebrity
• Conclusion: postmodernism on E!
• 5 Cultural studies and the politics of celebrity: From powerless elite to celebristardom
• Historical and intellectual development of the field
• Contemporary views on the powerless elite
• Ideology recalibrated
• Enter reflexivity as legitimation
• Hollywood and reflexivity.
• Entourage: his fame is their fortune - legend on the complete first season DVD cover
• Conclusion: the end of media-centric populism?
• Notes
• 6 Celebrity and religion
• Are celebrities gods?
• Are celebrities saints?
• Is celebrity worship religious?
• Does celebrity religion matter?
• Part II The Culture of Celebrity
• 7 The death of celebrity: Global grief, manufactured mourning
• Major claims and developments, and key contributions of theoretical perspectives for the critique of celebrity and fandom
• Case study: John Lennon and cultural mournings of the ex-Beatle
• Mourning Lennon
• Theoretical perspectives and the psychosocial dynamics of celebrity death
• The loss of the ideal: celebrity and its tribulations
• The rise and rise of celebrity death, and future prospects
• 8 Soap stars
• Soap opera celebrity - origin stories
• Sensitizing literature: key contributions
• Contemporary soap opera celebrity in the US
• Limitations and scholarly opportunities
• Soap star studies today
• 9 Celebrity, fans and fandom
• Researching fan cultures
• The value of fan culture
• Histories of fan culture research
• Critical theory, culture and capitalism
• The limits of Adorno's reflections on fan culture
• British cultural studies and subcultural identities
• Richard Hoggart and the subcultural question.
• Cultural studies and cultural populism
• Henry Jenkins and fandom
• Critiques of populist cultural studies
• Fan cultures in the age of ambivalence
• Contemporary fan studies
• Back to questions of method and research
• Concluding remarks
• 10 Celebrity in the social media age: Renegotiating the public and the private
• The private and the public: principal contributions
• Historical development.
• Presenting the self, keeping connected
• Celebrity news across media
• Presenting, branding and controlling the celebrity self
• Micro-celebrity
• Conclusions and future perspectives
• Part III Non-Western Celebrity
• 11 Victims, Bollywood and the construction of a cele-meme
• The celebrity ecology of victims
• The reproachable victim in Bollywood
• The therapeutic victim
• Moral icons, the cele-meme and heteropathic empathy
• 12 K-pop idols, artificial beauty and affective fan relationships in South Korea
• K-pop and popular culture in South Korea
• The idol system
• Idols and fans as 'parasocial kin'
• Bodies on display
• Concluding thoughts
• Note
• 13 'Idols' in Japan, Asia and the world
• The birth of 'idols' in Japan
• Idols, economics and politics in the 1990s
• Issues with idols and globalization
• 14 Celebrity and power in South America
• Carlos Gardel and Carmen Miranda and the emergence of a "dependent" pan-Latin-American star system (1925-1955).
• The consolidation of television industry (1960-1970): kitsch against politicized celebrities
• Celebrity politics, or the return of democracy under neo-liberal hegemony (1990-2000)
• 15 Celebrity philanthropy in China: Rethinking cultural studies' 'Big Citizen' critique
• Introduction and background
• Celebrity and philanthropy: key terms and debate
• Celebrity philanthropy in China: the historical context
• Case study 1: Zhang Ziyi and the politics of celanthropy in China
• Case study 2: politicizing consumption via celebrity-corporate shark activism
• Conclusions and avenues for future research
• Part IV The Conduits of Celebrity
• 16 Celebrity in the age of global communication networks
• Background.
• Key arguments in the literature
• Principal contributions
• Main criticisms
• Future developments
• 17 Celebrity involvement: Parasocial interaction, identification and worship
• Conceptualizing celebrity involvement
• Celebrity involvement processes
• Celebrity parasocial interaction
• Celebrity identification
• Celebrity worship
• Relationships among three types of celebrity involvement
• Knowing and relating to a celebrity
• Modeling a celebrity
• Examples of celebrity involvement
• Parasocial interaction with Dale Earnhardt
• Parasocial interaction with Nelson Mandela
• Identification with Princess Diana
• Identification with Steve Irwin
• Worshipping Diego Maradona
• Worshipping Elvis Presley
• 18 Celebrity, reputational capital and the media industries
• The cultural economy of celebrity production
• The political economy of celebrity capital
• Circulating and regulating fame
• Diana and the celebrity rights of the dead famous
• Celebrity libel and reputation management
• Conclusions
• 19 Human rights, democracy and celebrity
• Drawing public attention to causes and mediated personas - celebrity humanitarians in modern...
• The United Nations' Goodwill Ambassadors' scheme and non-governmental organisations
• Celebrity humanitarianism
• The critiques of celebrity advocacy and human rights
• Trivialisation
• Neo-liberalism
• Neo-colonialism
• Public diplomacy and celebrity humanitarians
• Celebrity diplomacy
• New directions of travel - beyond help or harm?
• Affective capacities
• Global North and South relations
• Post-humanitarianism
• 20 Drastic plastic: Identity in the age of makeover
• The sociology of cosmetic surgery and celebrity cultures.
• Extreme makeover: fame, celebrity and cosmetic surgery
• Make me look like that! Intimacy at a distance
• Celebrity cosmetic surgery, sociology and psychoanalysis
• 21 The Great Gomez: John Astin in conversation with Anthony Elliott
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-317-69148-2
• 1-317-69147-4
• 9781315776774 (ebook)

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